Rabbit sighting

Lee and I had just finished unloading 20 sheets of drywall when I took a walk around the side of our house. I turned the corner and let out a shriek. Our half blind cat Jack had been hunting and left the goods laying around.

I have never seen a rabbit here before. I felt a bit sad because they are cute, but I also don’t want them in my garden. The bunny was about half Jack’s size, so who knows how she caught it. Lee and I have been clearing out a blackberry patch so I wonder if it was displaced. The picture below is Jack playing with a mouse she caught while we were clearing blackberries. She released it eventually, but I found it a day later dead in a nest further into the blackberry thicket. Nature isn’t kind.

Yup, we had a cat who would bring weasels back. He was vicious. We called the bunny Punky, because of a little white streak on his forehead that looked like a mini-mohawk. He lived in my brother’s slipper for a while (!), and we’d take him outside and let him bounce around in the grass as a bitty baby. He grew up, and we released him back to the wild.

Tessie has become our new killing machine. That cat is unbelievable. She’ll have us rodent-free in no time at the rate she’s going.

A WEASEL?!? Oh my, that was one crazy cat. Lee and I do like having a rodent exterminator around. Before Jack moved in we had one year that our whole yard looked like a gopher mine field. It was so bad it was comical.

..yeah, this is a blessing in disguise..or a dead rabbit…I can’t decide. Jango got a rabbit by the foot once and came out with a foot in his mouth..not sure what happened to the rest of the rabbit but at least you didn’t have to worry about trying to make small crutches for a rabbit this way. A blessing in disguse afterall.

Oh dear, that is an awful story. In that case, I am really glad Jack got the whole bunny and not just a foot. Since Jango came back with a foot does that make him lucky? Obviously, the bunny run out of luck. Since the bunny wasn’t lucky then maybe that means it’s an unlucky foot?

I was just reading your blog and wondering if you still had ole one eyed Jack. I’m glad she’s still protecting your farm. I have TommyCat and Jerry outside protecting my farm from rodents. And Bobby inside does a grand job of killing and EATING any mice that make their way in. And Shadow eats all bugs that come in. Crazy animals, but it works!